Just outside the abandoned Harrison platform, directly across the street, is an old forge made of ancient flushed brick. It's so perfectly melded into the neighborhood you can well imagine the workmen walking to and from their shifts, perhaps getting off the DL&W at Harrison, going home for lunch even, all within a block or two of their job. It's a wonderful 19th and 20th century vignette, tucked into the commute. I looked up C.S. Osborne and found it's still open after 186 years (it was founded before Andrew Jackson took the Presidential oath of office), still family owned by what is now the seventh generation, continues to only sell to the trade and makes dozens of interesting tools for upholsterers and leather workers.
One of life's lessons is, take notes.
http://www.csosborne.com/index.htm
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